NSW Institute of Teachers

The Institute of Teachers supports quality teaching in all NSW schools. Its charter is to advance the status and standing of the teaching profession.

This website is an important resource, especially for me as a soon to be graduate teacher, as it gives you an outline of the elements expected of me for when i first start out in the teaching profession. These are:

1. Teachers know their subject content and how to teach that content to their students.
2. Teachers know their students and how they learn
3. Teachers plan, assess and report for effective learning
4. Teachers communicate effectively with their students
5. Teachers create and maintain safe and challenging learning environments through the use of classroom management skills
6. Teachers continually improve their professional knowledge and practice
7. Teachers are actively engaged members of their profession and the wider community

'Graduate teachers are beginning their teaching career in NSW. They have undertaken an approved program of teacher preparation and possess the requisite knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to plan for and manage successful learning.
These teachers are equipped to engage in and negotiate a process of ongoing professional learning. They identify their development needs and seek advice and support from colleagues. They have high expectations both of themselves as professional learners and for the learning of their students. Their commitment to students and student learning is reflected in their desire to support students’ achievement of the highest possible education outcomes.
They have the commitment, enthusiasm and interpersonal skills to assume a professional role within schools and their broader communities and to contribute to the operations of a school as a whole.'

http://www.nswteachers.nsw.edu.au/Main-Professional-Teaching-Standards.html